Kamado Tanjiro Vs Muzan Kibutsuji

Chapter 23 { Zenitsu Sleeps }

(Zenitsu's POV)

I scream, 'Ah—(a dirty high pitched note) Don't come over here! Don't come over here! Don't—!' Me and Shoichi begin running away from the demon.

I shouted at the demon, 'Ohhhh I'm not delicious! I'm definitely not delicious! I'm serious! This child is all skin and bones and dry as hell! He's also not good to eat too!'

The demon replies while chasing us, 'How would I know If I don't have a taste?' It stretch its tongue and whip it at us. I quickly grab the boy and push him aside with me. Its tongue missed us and strike a vase broken.'

I yell at the demon, 'What sort of tongue is that?! Why is it so fast! The water vase cracked and broke just like that! That's impossible!' while crashing through a door. I fall down onto the ground with Shoichi. He quickly get up and try to drag me up to escape the demon.

He says, 'Zenitsu-san, get up!'

I reply, 'Ahhh! It's gathering all over my knees! 80 percent of my fear has gathered on my knees! Ohhh just leave me! Just run away as fast as you can!'

He yells, 'I can't do that!' while continue pulling me up. This child is too kind-hearted. His heart is already making a frightened "sound" and yet... must do something. If I don't protect him, then it's just too sad for him! The number of years he has lived is only in the single digit! But I'm too weak, I don't even have the strength to protect him but must protect him... Suddenly the demon enters the room.

It tilts its head while saying creepily, 'I'm going to suck your brain matter from you ears... Guhee hee...' I widens my eyes and a shock of fear rush throughout my body. Suddenly the world around me blacked out. I fainted from fear.

(Narrator's POV)The fear and sense of responsibility within Zenitsu's mind has exploded...(Zenitsu's POV)

My body planted down onto the ground and I did not move an inch.

Shoichi shake me and says, 'Zenitsu-san... Zenitsu...?!' He saw me sleeping on the ground. He thinks, 'Did he just fell asleep?'

Suddenly the demon stretches its tongue out and attack him, 'What is that guy doing guhee! Die!'

He closes his eyes in fear shouted for me, 'Waaahh! Zenitsu-san! Please get up!' Suddenly its tongue get sliced in half. It pulled back its tongue and look at me in shocked. I stand up and put my hand out infront of Shoichi to reassure him. I put one of my leg foward and bend down. I hold my Nichirin blade and take in a deep breath producing hissing sound.

The demon moved back in fear, 'What... What is this sound? This guy... even his appearance has changed.'

I say, 'Breath Of Thunder! First Style Thunderclap And Flash!' I dissapear in lighthing and appeared several metre behind the demon . The demon head suddenly fall off and roll toward me. I suddenly woke up and see a demon's head crumbling away in dust under me.

I jumped up and yell in panic, 'Eeyaaah! It's dead! What's going on! It died in an instant?! I've enough of this!'

I look toward Shoichi and realised something, 'Shoichi... Does this mean that you... Thank you so much, we're finally saved~~ I won't forget this favour you did for me~~ You should have told me you were so strong from the beginning~~'

(Narrator's POV)

Shoichi is in the midst confusion. The appearance of the demon as well as Zenitsu's eye-stopping swordsman-ship. In other words, it's because he has never seen somebody as messed up in the head as Zenitsu but Shoichi has stopped thinking. The confusion hasn't gone away yet. A man that becomes stronger when he sleeps. Agatsuma Zenitsu. His nervousness and fear causes his normal self to become rigid and unable to move. However, when his life is in danger, the nervousness and fear his experiences exceeds his own limits and he fall asleep as of entering into a coma.

(Zenitsu'sPOV)

He says, 'Lets go already' with a speechless look on his face.

I reply, 'Okay...'

At the boar masked boy side...

He yells in annoyance, 'Tch blow away again. It's has been three days already. Damn it. Really pisses me off. Moving forward in the middle of such a narrow room... Really isn't what I'm good at!' Suddenly a demon's hand appeared from the corner of the corridor trying to grab him. He quickly dodge it and immediately get into a stance. The corner reveal a huge and fat demon.

It says, 'You dodged it. How unexpected you're still hopping around even though you're human. Your meat has the value of being beaten upon.'

He ignore him and yell, 'Self Style! Breath Of The Beast!' while rushing towards it.

He yells at it, 'Big targets have an even greater value of being chopped open!'

It replies, 'Hoho... You actually came running straight at me. You've got some nerve.' It reached its hands trying to grab him. He quickly sliced its hands off.

He yells, 'I'm going to leave your dead body out in the sun to dry! It will become my stepping stone!Fang Of The Third Rip And Devour!' He do a simultaneous horizontal slashes towards the demon and cut off its head. He landed on its dead body and kicked off it. He continue to dash down the corridor while shouting, 'Pig Assault! Pig Assault!'

At Tanjiro's side...(Tanjiro's POV)

The drum demon was walking down the hallway while grumbling, '"Rare blood"... "Rare blood"... As long as I eat that... 50 people... No. A hundred people's worth of it... I need to go find more humans with "rare blood" and devour them. If I do that then I... can still go back to the Twelve Demon Moons.'

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